CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Sex Trafficking, Victimology, Social Stigma
25 Oct 2013
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Process of making laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting to breaking laws. Objective: development of a body of general and verified principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime and treatment. Studies criminal behaviour: causes, patterns, control of. Uses methds of established social science: records, experiments, surveys, historical data, content analysis. Interdisciplinary: sociology, criminal justice, psychology, political sciece, anthropology, economics, natural sciences. Criminal statistics: create valid and reliable measures of crime. Sociology of law: history of law, law reform. Criminal behaviour systems: determining the nature and cause of specific crime patterns. Penology: correction and control of criminal behaviour. Victimology: nature and cause of victimization. Study involves describing, analyzing and explaining the agencies of justice: police, courts, corrections. Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members: may be either prescriptive (don"t) or proscriptive (do, two special types of norms that were identified by william graham sumner:
